Cigarette holder



Aug-3,192& 1594171 A. G. HEBBLETHWAITE CIGARETTE norma Filed March 28. 1924 lll/lllllllllllllllll Patented Ang. 3, 1926.

tteem ALFRED GEORGE I'IEBELETHVIAITE, OF KEIGI-ILEY', ENGLAND, ASSIGNR OF ONE HALF TO GEORGE CROFT FOULDS, OF KEIGHLEY; ENGLAND.

CIGARETTE HLDER.

Application filed March es, 19%, seriai No. 7023532, and in Great Britain February e, 1924.

In using a cigarette hclder the removal of the unburnt or other portion of a cigarette left in said holder is often a source of inconvenienee and annoyance by reason of the paper covering of the cigarette adhering firmly to the inner wall of the soclet within which it has bee 'pia-red. To provide means which will readily and etfectively remove such adhering paper whiie'the same means will, during the use of the cigaret-te holder, permit perfect 'freedom tor the draught through the cigarette and the holder during smoking, is the object ot' my present invention.`

To attain this object I construct a ciga rette holder as hereinatter described and claimed. v i

Of the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification,

Figure l is an elevation, showing a`holder embodying the invention the cylinder and its scraping tongues hereinafter described being in position to permitthe insertion or" a cigarette in the soclet.

Figure 2 is a similar View to Figure 1, showing the cylinder in the possition it occupies after scraping paper 'from the inner wall of the socket.

Figure 3 is an end elevation of the holder shown by Figures 1 and 2 as seen looking in a direction from left to right of said figures.

Figure 4 is a longitudinal section of the holder.

Figure 5 is a section on line A, B, of Figure 4.

Figures 6 and 7 are elevations illustrating a modification.

Figure 8 is a longitudinal section of the holder shown by Figures 6 and 7 with the parts in the position shown bv Figure 6.

Figure9 is a side elevation showing the cylinder shown by Figures l to 5, inclusive, removed from the holder socket.

Figure 10 is an elevation showing the mouth piece portion of the hoder illustrated by Figures 6, 7 and 8, in detail.

Figure 11 is an elevation showing the socket portion of the holder shown by Fig- 50 ures 6, 7 and 8.

In carrying my invention into etect, as shown by Figures; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 9, I mount within the socket portion b of the holder, and in contact with the inner wall a of the said socket portion, a hollow cylinder or bush c, of resilient sheet metal, in close contact with saidinner walh the cylinder torming an unobstructed passage tor smoke from the sochot to the duet (L through the mouth piece portion 6 Ott the hold'u'.

This, bush or cylinder c g slide within the sochet, so that when *ith drawn to its rearmost position shown by Figures l and 4, the end ot` the cigarette may be inserted in the out-er part of the soeket. VVhenthe sn'ioker eommences to draw air through the cigarette, such airis permitted to pass unobstruetedly through the cylinder c and through the duet d.

The outer end 'of the cylinder c is proy vided with slots 70, subdividing said end into to i longitudinal resilient tongues having scrapi ing outer ends c'. The tongues are tensioned, so that'they normally spring out ward as shown by Figure 9. When the cyl-. inder is inserted in the socket the scraping ends c' are pressed radially against the in ner wall a, and are adapted to scrape therefrom any cigarette paper which may adhere thereto.

lVhen the user desires to discharge or displace the end of the cigarette from its position within the sooket, as when the major part of the oigarette has been consumed, he moves the cylinder c lengthwise within the socket and towards the outer end of the holder, as shown by Figure 2 The scraping ends c' of the oylinder c move in scraping contact with the inner wall a, so that any adhering paper is removed 'from the holder when the cyinder c reaches the position shown by Figure 2.

The movement of the cylinder c within the socket is efiected by the manipulation, by the user, of a projection f which is fixed to the cylinder c and extends through a slot g in the wall of the socket portion b. The projection f in conjunction with the slot g acts both as means tor Operating or moving the cylinder c as well as for retaining the same in position.

In the embodiment above described, the socket and mouth-piece portions of the holder form one integral part, but it is obvious that the said portions may be made in separate parts, as shown by Figures 6 to 8, inclusive, and by Figure 11.

In this latter case the socket portion 6 is mounted to slide on the outer end of the mouth portion b' and a projection is fixed to the mouth-piece portion and cooperates with a slot g in the soeket portion, in guiding and limiting longitudinal movement of the socket portion on the lmo th -piecepor tion.

The oylinder or bush, here designatecl by 0 is shorter than the cylincler c above described, and is fixed to the outer end of the mouth-piece portion b', as by a boss h (Figure 10) formed on the. cylincler, entering a recess b* in the slightly r-ecluced end of the mouth-piece portion.

The cylinder is rovicled, as before, with tensioned tongues aving scraping encls c', and aclaptecl to spring outward against the' inner wall a' of the socket portion. The inner wall a' may be tapereri as shown by Figure 8, the tension of the tongues enabling the scraping ends c' to' follow the taper of the wall and remove paper adhering thereto.

In each of the illustrated embodiments of the invention, the holcler is provided with a hollow -cylinder of resilient sheet metal, which is slotted 'at its outer end to 'form a circula' .series of resilient tongiies, having scraping outer ends, thetongues being.ten- Sionecl to normally spring outwarch so that the-scraping encls are pressed radially oute ward against theinner. Wall of the sooket,"

and are adapted to scrapeofi` paper adhering mouth o f; the socket, as shown by Figures 1,

4 and 8, to leave the outer portion of the soeket unobstructed for the reception 'of a cigarette, and may be causecl to serape paper from said wall after :the major' portion of the cigarette has been consumed.

Snch being ,the nature and object of my said invention, what I claim is A eigarette holcler having in its rec-eiving socket a hollow cylinder of resilient sheet metal, open from end to end, so that it does not obstrne t the passage of smoke through the holcler, and slotteclat its outer end to form a cireular series 'of resilient tongues, which have scraping onter ends and are tensioned to normally spring outward, so'that the scraping ends are pressecl radially outward against the inner wall and are adapted to sorape'paper therefrom the cylinder and the socket being relatively novable, so that the tongues may be spac-ed inwarcl froni the month of the socket, to leave the latter unobstructed for the reception of a cigarette, and caused to scrape paper 'from the inner wallafter the magor portion of the cigarette has been consumed.

r ALFRED'GEORGE HEBBLETHWAITE. 

